Glaister returns to trade with launch of book recommendation website Litalist

Seni Glaister (pictured below), the co-founder and former chief executive of The Book People, is to return to the book business in 2022 with the launch of the Litalist. Read more

s Superman Circumcised? wins Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year

Is Superman Circumcised? has cut through the competition to claim the 2021 Diagram Prize for Oddest Book of the Year, earning a 51% share of the public vote. Read more

Bookshop Heroes class of 2021 revealed

Twenty-three people have been included in The Bookseller's Bookshop Heroes class of 2021, a list of some of the best individual booksellers in the UK and Ireland... Read more

Jacobson, Suttie and Roden to feature at Jewish Book Week

Authors including Howard Jacobson, novelist and comedian Isy Suttie and cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist Claudia Roden are among the line-up for Jewish Book Week,... Read more
Sphere nets Billingham's first new series for 20 years

Sphere has netted Mark Billingham’s first new series for more than 20 years. Read more
Charco signs Tenório's Jabuti-winning English debut

Charo Press is to publish Jeferson Tenório's "forceful and timely" novel The Flipside of Skin, which has just been named the 2021 winner of Brazil's most... Read more
Northern Writers’ Awards open with new prize from Myers

The Northern Writers’ Awards has opened for submissions with a chance to win a share of £40,000 in development opportunities as former winner Benjamin Myers (pictured) launches a... Read more
Unbound reprints 70,000 copies of TikTok hit Cain's Jawbone

Unbound is reprinting 70,000 copies of Cain's Jawbone, as the literary mystery by Edward Powys Mathers continues to prove a TikTok sensation and bookshops experience... Read more
Newport wins first Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour

Christie J Newport has won the inaugural Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour with the "enormously promising" first instalment in a police procedural... Read more

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Forever and another day

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

It might seem odd for a magazine called The Bookseller to have a dedicated issue for “booksellers”, but this week’s issue is a dedicated one... Read more
On #unkindness and doing better

Anna Vaught Author
Criminal stereotypes

J L Hall
A fundamental shift

Aidan Meller Creative director of Ai-Da Robot
Diversity means everybody

Syima Aslam Director of the Bradford Literature Festival